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ZANESVILLE, Ohio - A grieving mother returned to her family's campsite along the banks of the
Muskingum River last night and tore down the tent from which her two toddler sons wandered away
unnoticed early yesterday.

Authorities recovered the body of 3-year-old Ayden Leroy Cecil in the river just before 10:30
a.m., about an hour and half after his mother, 25-year-old Kacey Klein, and her husband, Richard
Klein Jr., realized Ayden and his half-brother were missing.

The search for 2-year-old Anthony Joseph Tullius was called off late last night because the
high, raging river was too dangerous for divers, said Capt. Jeff LeCocq of the Muskingum County
sheriff's office. The area also is too large to search when rescuers have no idea where the younger
boy's body might be, he said.

Authorities said they fear that "A.J.," as Anthony was known, also drowned. Search dogs tracked
both boys' scents to the water.

The Kleins told authorities they awoke yesterday morning inside their two-person tent at the
Muskingum River State Park at Ellis Dam in Muskingum County and realized the two boys were gone,
LeCocq said.

The 911 call came in at 8:46 a.m., and a search began immediately.

Ayden's body was found about a mile south of the spillway at the dam and has been sent to the
Montgomery County coroner's office for an autopsy.

Late last night, the Kleins had packed up their campsite. They spent the night with
relatives.

Going to their Zanesville home, they said, would be too painful.

"I just can't go in. Everything in the house is our kids," said Mr. Klein, 38, the children's
stepfather. "Those babies was our lives."

He and his wife sat inside the family's van and cried as they talked about the children. Mr.
Klein's shaking hands gripped the steering wheel to steady himself.

Mrs. Klein said that Ayden was a delightful boy who didn't let his cerebral palsy slow him
down.

"He did so good," she said. "He could do everything other kids could do."

Knowing that A.J. was still out there in the water was almost too much for them to bear, the
couple said. When authorities approached Mr. Klein on the riverbank to tell him they had to call
off the search, he collapsed.

LeCocq said that yesterday was about recovery of the boys' bodies, and that much more work needs
to be done to figure out how the boys were able to wander away unnoticed.

No authorities, however, were casting blame. Everyone instead was focused on comforting a
grieving family.

The area where the Kleins were camping is off a dirt road in a remote area of the park. They had
a fun weekend planned, evidenced by the children's fishing poles leaning against a picnic table and
the nearby tricycle.

The family's tent was pitched just a few feet from the river's edge, and the boys easily could
have walked from it and straight into the water.

However, police dogs traced their scent, which indicated that the boys had left the tent and
walked south along a breakwall and the water's edge for probably 500 feet, LeCocq said. It appears
that they both went into the water there.

Nine boats searched for A.J., and cadaver dogs were on the boats to assist. Airplanes also were
used.

But the river is high, fast and full of debris because of the heavy spring rains, LeCocq said,
and it proved too dangerous for rescuers to continue.

They couldn't drag the bottom of the river because of the amount of debris, and the rushing
water interfered with divers' breathing equipment.

The search spanned about 15 miles of river between the state park and Duncan Falls, and it
concentrated around two spillways.

Even at its worst, the river is an alluring draw, said Jim Lackey, a park visitor who drives
from his home in Rawson in northern Ohio to camp and fish here every summer.

"It's so beautiful," he said, "but it's so unforgiving."

The search yesterday was painful for all who had to stand on the banks and simply watch.

"It makes you feel stupid, like your hands are tied and there is nothing you can do to help,"
Lackey said.

Authorities said that with the strong current, they likely won't search again.

But Lackey and other campers and neighbors of the park said that, with or without the
authorities, they will search the waters for A.J. today.